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OWB -- metadata import from data dictionary question [message #93370] Fri, 24 September 2004 05:50
Joon H. Bae
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Registered: September 2004
Junior Member
Hi,

I'm relatively new to using OWB (9.0.4) and I have a problem that I don't know how to solve: my client has data dictionaries in various text files as outputted from DB2 and other mainframe sources. Is there a way to use OWB to import these into usable structures?

Here is a sample structure of a data dictionary:

TABLE MANUAL 5.0H REL.: 06/23/04 XXXA -001 1
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TABLE DOCUMENTATION

G/L A-SEGMENT



TABLE STRUCTURE

FIELD KEY TY. LN OFFS DOMAIN TEXT
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1111A RECL 2 00000 SEGLN MAXIMUM SEGMENT LENGTH
11112A NUM 2 00002 RCFVS FIELD RESERVED FOR VSAM INFORMATION
23IDA SGID 2 00004 SEGID SEGMENT TYPE
.....


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ALLOCATION OF TABLE TO COMPONENT

191 RS - GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTS
403 RK - PRIMARY COST DATA ENTRY
700 PERSONNEL
.....

various descriptions listed below for each table type
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Thanks in advance,

Joon H. Bae
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